The sun of a prince's good graces resembles that in the skies in that it shines most kindly upon the blackest people.

The state has no religion for the simple reason that it has each and everyone.

The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.

As far as the arts and the sciences are concerned, the German mind appreciates most highly that which it does not understand of the latter, and that which it does not enjoy of the former.

Genius differs from talent not by the amount of original thoughts, but by making the latter fertile and by positioning them properly, in other words, by integrating everything into a whole, whereas talent produces only fragments, no matter how beautiful.

The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.

In early times, before the floods swept across the world, there was life, albeit odd, as one can see from the fossils of mammoth bones, and there was the regime of Prince Metternich.